We make no more apologies for redundancy, if that is what this submission seems to be. This is an issue that must be repeated and emphasized until it sinks in.
Hydrogen is needed for the hydrogenation of carbonaceous raw materials derived from Coal, so that those Coal-derived products can be further, completely and economically, processed into direct replacements for the liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels our current economy is dependent on; and, which we currently rely on increasingly scarce, increasingly expensive, OPEC-type petroleum sources for the supply of.
More than half a century ago, our local Consolidation Coal Company, and their lead Coal conversion scientist, whom we have cited many times before, Everett Gorin, clearly detailed, with the Patent Office approval of our United States Government, how we could economically and locally obtain all of the Hydrogen we need for the upgrading of Coal liquids, through catalyzed reactions between Coal and Steam.
Summary comment follows excerpts from:
"United States Patent 2,654,663 - Gasification of Carbonaceous Solid Fuels
Date: October, 1953
Inventor: Everett Gorin, PA
Assignee: Consolidation Coal Company, Pittsburgh
Abstract: This invention relates to the gasification of carbonaceous solid fuels, and particularly to the production of hydrogen or high B.t.u. gas from such fuels.
The primary object of this invention is to provide an improved two vessel system for converting carbonaceous solid fuels into gas under substantially thermoneutral conditions.
Another object of this invention is to provide ... a system for making a high B.t.u. fuel gas which is rich in methane.
A further object is to provide a two-vessel system for converting carbonaceous solid fuels into a gas which is rich in hydrogen."
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We'll cut right to the chase:
Gorin and Consol developed a system to react Coal and Steam in a way that would generate all the Methane or Hydrogen we might need; whether we want, using other technologies we've already documented for you, to convert that Methane directly into liquid fuels; or, to react, "tri-reform" that Methane with Carbon Dioxide, to make liquid fuels; or, to utilize the Hydrogen to hydrogenate carbonaceous Coal liquids derived from other processes, using long-established and well-understood petroleum industry "hydro-refining" and "hydro-cracking" techniques, to create direct replacements for liquid petroleum products.
Moreover, this is another "thermoneutral" process, where all of the energy required to drive all of the reactions is derived or produced from the raw Coal feed.
We can make all of the Hydrogen we need to hydrogenate Coal liquids. Further, we don't need anything but Coal and Water to do so.
And, we have known all of that, as herein officially, in the Ohio Valley aorta of United States Coal Country, and in the capital of the United States of America, for more than half a century.
